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Record ID: NLM-AE0A4B
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible spindle whorl. Cast annular or tubular cylindrical object with a central moulded aperture of diameter [now] c.13mm. Shrinkage lines indicate this was cast in an open mould. Patinated, and indented by a distorting impact. If a whorl, this might be an example of Walton Rogers form B. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 950-1100.
Diameter (as found): 22.2mm, Height: 18.6mm, Weight: 37.23gms
Created on: Monday 19th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5B110D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead object, kindly identified by Alex Bliss as a stirrup side terminal of 11th century date and probable Anglo-Scandinavian attribution. A small concavo-convex cast object of copper alloy, forming half a tube of wall thickness c.1.1mm, with a dense white filling in its concave side. Viewed in profile, the convex side is gently humped at one end, with a pair of angled ridges meeting between the hump and a rounded end. Abraded. The appearance is of a simple zoomorphic scheme, with the ridges representing eyes or brows, which might point to a Viking-Age date. Suggested d…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-400659
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. A thin flat-sided oval-ended billet with knife-cut edges; patinated. The mass may suggest this to represent eight units of 4.07gmns, as used in Viking Age Scandinavia for transactions in silver bullion. Numerous plain lead weights thought to respect this or allied systems have been reported, and their Early Medieval date has been advanced by Dave Haldenby and Jane Kershaw with reference to a large assemblage from Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire. There, such weights were either rectangular or discoid, so this form combines these formal characteristics in an object…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-16F7F2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible weight. Cast rectangular block with cut ends, and with tiny pits over its largest opposed flat surfaces. Lightly patinated. Marks of this character are sometimes ascribed to chewing by vermin or children, but in this case they do not appear anywhere except on opposed sides, and so may be formed deliberately, perhaps with the point of a knife. The mass equates to one ora/ore, the slightly underweight Viking-Age equivalent to the ounce, and in this case may comprise six (slightly underweight) units of 4.07gms, which were used for bullion transactions in the Viking 'kingdom'…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2018
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Record ID: NLM-C52D45
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast whorl of plano-convex form with a central moulded aperture of diameter 10.2mm, Walton Rogers form A1. Shrinkage lines in the upper surface as cast suggest the object was made in an open mould. Patinated, and distorted by subsequent impact. The ample hole may point to an Anglo-Scandinavian date while the mass suggests a primary function plying cord. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000.
Diameter: 29.3mm, Thickness: 12.9mm, Weight: 68.52gms
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B0D255
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible strap end. Cast elongated plate of plano-concavo section, broken at one or possibly both ends. Either closely-spaced transverse grooves or chatter marks appear along the ridge of the display face towards one end. This might be the remnant of a simple strap end of Thomas Class A, or a similar object of later date, as might be expected to bear either simpler or devolved decoration, albeit almost entirely lost to wear. This interpretation presupposes the loss of the means of attachment as well as, possibly, a decorated terminal. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-11…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-86A1E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron brooch. Cast small long brooch of cross potent form retaining the corroded remnant of an iron pin at a lug behind its head. The three arms of a cruciform head are all indented with a curved hollow in their sides. A curved concavo-convex bow with central aris and a flat triangular zone at the top of its projection is lightly hollowed behind. The bow tapers gently towards a narrower foot with a slightly raised rectangular panel above its [present] straight end. The stub of a catch plate appears behind the foot. Worn, perhaps polished by use. The good condition and r…
Created on: Monday 5th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-03F2BD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable strap end. A small cast plate with a spilt end, and with slightly flared sides; the other end is lost. Indistinct traces of moulded ornament on one side may suggest this to be a small zoomorphic strap end which has lost its beast head terminal; if so, of Thomas Class A. There is, however, no evidence for the attachment of the strap. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-850.
Length: 28.2mm, Width: 6.6mm, Thickness (at midpoint): 1.4mm, Weight: 1.53gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-0334AC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pin fragment. Cast pin with a flat-sided facetted head with thirteen facets, with four ring and dot of diameter 2.4mm on the largest flat faces, and one apiece on the others save for the uppermost, collared, with an unvaried round section shank do far as it remains; Flixborough type 231. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-850.
Length: 21.9mm, Width: 9.6mm, Thickness: 6.5mm, Diameter (shank): 1.8mm, Weight: 3.79gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2018Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-E09B6F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable brooch fragment. Cast fragment from the head of a cruciform brooch comprising a half-round knob with deep basal collar springing from the centre of a flat plate with a lug on the back. Fiercely abraded. The object appears to be from a one-piece version or copy of the head of a cruciform brooch. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.
Height: 29.0mm, Width: 18mm, Thickness (plate, clear of lug): 1.6mm, Weight: 7.78gms
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-CD339E
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible ingot. A cast teardrop-shaped object of plano-convex section with five or more longitudinal flattened facets. The mass is close to one ora/ore, a Scandinavian equivalent to an underweight ounce, or six of its sub-units of 4.07gms. The latter are from one of two Viking Age systems apparently used in parallel for the weighing of silver bullion. Ingots of precious metal resembling this object in their form are frequently ascribed to this period. However, small ingot moulds sometimes retain the traces of use with other non-ferrous metals (e.g. Foreman, M. no. 87, page…
Created on: Monday 15th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-795293
Object type: NET SINKER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead net-sinker. A tubular weight made by the rolling of a rectangle of cast lead sheet of thickness 1.5mm, either around a former or around the selvedge of a net, secured by a butted join of its edges. The aperture has a diameter of 5mm. Patinated. Weights of this form have long been used to weight fishing tackle. A large collection was discovered in a late medieval boat near Blackfriars Bridge. London. However, the only stratified parallels from North Lincolnshire are earlier, coming from Middle Saxon contexts at Flixborough. These were equipped with either overlapping or butted seam…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-166FF4
Object type: MAMMAL REMAINS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bone possible skate fragment. A large mammal long bone, probably cannon bone of horse, with a hole of diameter 11.7mm drilled from the posterior aspect immediately below the facets of the articular surface so as to meet the natural longitudinal cavity in the middle of the bone, and breaking out at the other side. Butchery marks appear as angled cuts close to the end of the bone. The facets of the articular surface are abraded, and some bone has been lost around the drilled hole. Angled chopping has trimmed the posterior surface with at least two hefty blows, resulting in or contributin…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amcotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-15D090
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle whorl. Cast cylindrical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 13mm, Walton Rogers form B. Shrinkage lines around the hole on one side suggest manufacture in an open mould. A pair of nicks at the edge of the hole on one side, and a single corresponding nick on the other, may signal the conversion of whorl to a line weight equipped with tying grooves. Patinated, with some subsequent cuts and possibly slightly flattened. The ample spindle hole may indicate an Anglo-Scandinavian date while the mass suggests a primary function plying cord. Suggested date: Early Medi…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2017
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amcotts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D6D1D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast lower bow and foot from a small cruciform brooch, with a folded catch plate behind the lower bow. The remaining part of the brooch comprises, from the top: a flat panel with framed by neatly inscribed pairs of horizontal lines; a plain short [5.9mm] panel flanked by bevelled edges; a half-round moulding bounded by triple moulded collars; and a horse head foot with small eyes at the apices of conical bulges, a keeled medial line, and prominent scroll-shaped nostrils with mouldings above them and a short wedge-shaped or trapezoid protrusion between them…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2017Spatial data recorded.